Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-242) and index
Constructions of identity in post-1970 experimental fiction / Kathleen M. Wheeler -- The power to tell: rape, race and writing in Afro-American women's fiction / Maud Ellman -- Looking awry: tropes of disability in post-colonial writing / Ato Quayson -- Movement in fiction / John Harvey -- The dissident imagination: Beckett's late prose fiction / Drew Milne -- The mutations of William Burroughs / Geoff Ward -- 1973 the end of history: cultural change according to Muriel Spark / Rod Mengham -- Oswald our contemporary: Don DeLillo's Libra / N.H. Reeve -- Graham Swift and the mourning after / Adrian Poole -- Mapping the margins: translation, invasion and Celtic islands in Brian Moore and John Fuller / Sophie Gilmartin -- The uses of impurity: fiction and fundamentalism in Salman Rushdie and Jeanette Winterson / Mark Wormald -- Sex, violence and complicity: Martin Amis and Ian McEwan / Kiernan Ryan -- Can fiction swear? James Kelman and the Booker Prize / Geoff Gilbert